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russian government states a raid earlier today at aamnesty international offices in moscow, the government accused its political foe for spying for foreign governments. putin says the raid is just an scamp of why it's always best to play nice with mother russia. phil black joins me live now from moscow. phil, welcome. >> reporter: jake, a 67-year-old man collapsing in his bathroom and dying would not normally become an international news story, nor would the police normally block off his home and test for radioactive convict tom nation. but that is what has happened in the case of the death of borys bare zofski. he was one of russia's richest men who went on to be one of the most vocal critics much putin. anybody who knew him in the 1990s described him as driven and ambitious, not your average mathematician. he became one of the country's hated oligarchs, that small number of ruthless businessmen who quickly built enormous personal wealth, snapping up state resources cheaply as russia chaotically embraced capitalism. he also charmed, pestered and lobbied his way into the kremlin. becoming
russian government states a raid earlier today at aamnesty international offices in moscow, the government accused its political foe for spying for foreign governments. putin says the raid is just an scamp of why it's always best to play nice with mother russia. phil black joins me live now from moscow. phil, welcome. >> reporter: jake, a 67-year-old man collapsing in his bathroom and dying would not normally become an international news story, nor would the police normally block off his...
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this is a foolish move by the faa and the federal government. and it is a great example of how the feds can't get the budget act together. this is a public safety issue. this puts at risk the citizens, over 3 million people in the region, that depend on the ramona airport for their safety in the event of a wildfire or any other kind of disaster. we have had some big ones. 2003, 2007. what the feds are doing, because they cannot put -- are not able to put public safety first and protect the people by closing these airport towers is a disaster in the making. >> mayor, the faa said that they will work with local governments to mitigate the impact. have you heard from the faa and how concerned are you about the effects to the citizens of your town? >> i haven't heard directly from the faa yet. we sent out letters to our congressional representatives and the faa and said, look, we understand there is a budget crisis here and we're look. we understand that there is a budget crisis here. we're willing to work with them. need to cut back on the hours to
this is a foolish move by the faa and the federal government. and it is a great example of how the feds can't get the budget act together. this is a public safety issue. this puts at risk the citizens, over 3 million people in the region, that depend on the ramona airport for their safety in the event of a wildfire or any other kind of disaster. we have had some big ones. 2003, 2007. what the feds are doing, because they cannot put -- are not able to put public safety first and protect the...
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government and they don't even know their identity. what i've seen in my reporting on the ground in somalia, yemen, and elsewhere is we'll have tremendous blowback from this if we don't take a serious step back and look at the impact on the ground of the drone strikes. >> how about that? you've written about whether in pakistan these drone strikes create more terrorists than they kill as jeremy argued. >> well, what we actually look at is public opinion. what is interesting, everyone knows pakistanis tend to dislike the drones in the major cities. what we don't actually know is what pakistanis think about the drones in the tribal areas. in my own travels on pakistan i find that people, the closer they are to the drones the less willing they are to say they hate them. in part because they understand the options are the pakistan military are living under the regime but i will say i very much agree with jeremy. i am not a supporter of the so-called strikes. even if we were to have transparency we wouldn't know anything about the signature
government and they don't even know their identity. what i've seen in my reporting on the ground in somalia, yemen, and elsewhere is we'll have tremendous blowback from this if we don't take a serious step back and look at the impact on the ground of the drone strikes. >> how about that? you've written about whether in pakistan these drone strikes create more terrorists than they kill as jeremy argued. >> well, what we actually look at is public opinion. what is interesting,...
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despite the intense preparations and elaborate official government explanations the story of what really happened on the night osama bin laden was killed is still unclear. there are differing accounts from the obama administration and the book written by one of the s.e.a.l.s and most recently in a highly publicized esquire magazine article. in a cmn exclusive report we're getting a different take on how the leader of al qaeda was killed from one of the s.e.a.l.s who raided bin laden's compound. >> reporter: for a nation still grieving in many ways, it was a well-needed victory in the war on terror. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed bosama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> and for a president running for re-election during a tough economic time, it was touted as his signature foreign policy accomplishment. >> osama bin laden is dead, and general mo it totors is alive. >> osama bin laden was dead and the elite squad of men who took him out instantly became anonymous legends. >> osama. >> and action movie characters. >> a possible jackpot. >> details of the rai
despite the intense preparations and elaborate official government explanations the story of what really happened on the night osama bin laden was killed is still unclear. there are differing accounts from the obama administration and the book written by one of the s.e.a.l.s and most recently in a highly publicized esquire magazine article. in a cmn exclusive report we're getting a different take on how the leader of al qaeda was killed from one of the s.e.a.l.s who raided bin laden's compound....